Freie Wähler on families

The Free Voters want to keep childcare free of charge and adjust the state child-raising allowance (Landeserziehungsgeld) for inflation. The final kindergarten year is to become mandatory, with compulsory pre-school classes in all kindergartens. More staff are to be recruited through shorter training and appropriate pay.

The Free Voters want childcare to stay free. The last year of kindergarten should be required. Every kindergarten should offer pre-school classes. Childcare workers should be paid better. Their training should be shorter.

Childcare is to remain free, and the Landeserziehungsgeld is to rise with prices. The staff-to-child ratio is to stay low; exceptions during staff shortages are to remain possible for a limited time. Training for childcare workers is to be shortened and appropriately paid even during training. Attendance in the final kindergarten year is to be compulsory, as is a pre-school program in every kindergarten. A program placing elementary school teachers in kindergartens is to be resumed. A special investment program is planned for building and maintaining daycare centers, and multigenerational houses are to be supported.

The Free Voters want children and a career to be easy to combine. Among other things, they call for a right to switch between part-time and full-time work and for childcare geared to parents' needs.

Parents should be able to combine children and work. People who work less should be allowed to work full-time again later. Childcare should fit what parents need. Fathers should take parental leave too.

The program calls for a right to move from part-time to full-time work and back. Young parents and single parents are to be able to do vocational training part-time. More pension credits are to be granted for time spent on care and child-rearing. Parental leave for fathers is to become normal, and attractive conditions for working from home are to be created. Childcare is to follow what parents need.

The Free Voters want to expand and fund a statewide network against violence toward children and young people. Children are to be better protected online, where the program sees new dangers emerging.

The Free Voters want to protect children better. There should be help against violence all over Bavaria. Children should be safer on the internet. Nobody should exploit children as influencers. Influencers promote things online.

The network is to offer easily accessible protection and help. Youth welfare offices are to get more support. Protection of children is to grow especially on social media. The definition of child labor is to be rewritten so that children are not exploited as influencers. Psychological care for children and young people is to be expanded.